Daily Stand up Meetings

Daily meetings are a critical way to set your culture, make improvements, and get a touch on your operations. Have you been a part of a day stand up meeting? What did you notice about your daily stand up meetings? How are you running the meetings? Let’s first take the purpose.

Purpose of a Daily Stand Up Meeting

This will have to be up to you to decide what you ultimate purpose is but here are some to consider:

Performance related

Culture change

Communication

Teaching and Training

All of the above

Your purpose will determine the content of the meetings and should align to the strategy of the organization. Daily stand up meetings are used as an amplifier, they amplify what you want to get.

Structure of Daily Stand Up Meetings

You can do this many different ways, virtually, in person, whole team, partial teams, tiered meeting structure, etc. Here are the key tenements of the structure for your daily stand up meeting:

Scope what you talk about and what you don’t talk about

Have decision makers in the meeting so you can change things quickly

Keep it short , less than 30 min and preferably 7 minutes

If you can stay standing

Once you understand your purpose and structure then you should address your norms.

Norms for Daily Stand up Meetings

The norms for your meeting will be dependent on your company but here are some suggestions:

Length of meeting

Topics in meeting

Dry erase board or projector for data presentation

No distractions

Keep it 70% positive 70% of the time

Now that you have a basics give it a shot and see how quickly you can achieve your business goals.